Winter Storms and Climate Change

Provided by: MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative |Published on: February 14, 2023
Lesson Plans Grades 9-12

Synopsis

  • This lesson teaches students about albedo, feedback loops, the difference between weather and climate, the polar vortex, and the jet stream.
  • It outlines eight different activities designed to be used with the TILclimate podcast episode about winter storms and includes demonstrations, an experiment, animations, a video, readings, graphs, and maps.
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Subjects: Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Region: North America, Polar Regions, Global
Languages: English

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MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Founded in 2014, the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) is MIT’s institute-wide effort to mobilize the substantial scientific, engineering, policy, and design capacity of the MIT community to contribute to addressing climate change and other environmental challenges of global import. ESI pursues multidisciplinary research, education, events, and partnerships to help move society toward an environmentally and socially sustainable future. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts on MIT’s main campus, ESI is powered by a lean staff working closely with students and faculty across the full spectrum of disciplines. Led by architecture professor John E. Fernandez, a leading scholar in the emerging field of urban metabolism, ESI is advised by students, faculty, alumni, and thought leaders from many sectors of society.

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